• An Overview of Strategies to Reduce School Violence
• Assessing Threats of Targeted Group Violence: Contributions from Social Psychology
• Children's Threats: When Are They Serious
• Creating Safe and Drug-free Schools: An Action Guide
• Early Warning Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
• Evaluating Risk for Targeted Violence in Schools: Comparing Risk Assessment, Threat Assessment, and Other Approaches
• The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative (2002) U.S. Secret Services's national threat Assessment Center and U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug-Free School Program report based on 37 incidents of school shootings and attacks (1974-2000)
• Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence
• Protective Intelligence & Threat Assessment Investigations "A Guide for State and Local Law Enforcement Officials"
• The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective
• Student Strategies to Avoid Harm at School
• Student Victimization at School
• Threat Assessment
• Threat Assessment: An Approach to Prevent Targeted Violence
• Threat Assessment: Defining an Approach for Evaluating Risk of Targeted Violence
• Threat Assessment in Schools: A guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates
• USSS Safe School Initiative:  An Interim Report on the Prevention of Targeted Violence in Schools

• Everyday School Violence: How Disorder Fuels It
• Feel Safe at School Again
• Identification and Prevention of Youth Violence
• Implementing Effective Safe & Drug-free Schools Programs in a Comprehensive School Wide Environment
• Intervening Against Violence in Schools
• Managing Violent and Disruptive Students
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Preventing and Managing Conflict in Schools
• Preventing Bullying: A Manual for Schools and Communities
• Risk Factors for School Violence
• Safe Schools, Safe Students: A Guide to Violence Prevention Strategies
• School Bullying and Victimization
• School Safety Work Books: What Works Promising Violence Prevention Programs
• Weapons in Schools

• National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime
• National Threat Assessment Center
• National School Safety and Security Services
• Partnership Against Violence Network (PAVNET)

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